The programme local d'habitat: preparing a housing strategy for Lille |
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| Authors: | Philip Booth Howard Green |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Town &2. Regional Planning , University of Sheffield , Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK. Phone: 0114 222 6910 E-mail: p.booth@sheffield.ac.uk;3. Design &4. Built Environment , Leeds Metropolitan University , Calverley Street, Leeds , LS1 3HE, UK. Phone: 0113 283 2600 E-mail: h.green@lmu.ac.uk |
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| Abstract: | By the end of the 1970s, the French government had begun to realize that the large‐scale provision of social housing had created as many problems as it had solved. Social exclusion, unemployment and racial tension appeared to be particularly concentrated in the peripheral housing estates that had been the result of the housing policy of the 1960s. In the 1990s, the government developed the programme local d'habitat (PLH; local housing programme) as a means of creating an integrated housing policy across the whole of a given urban area. This article looks at the origins and evolution of the PLH, and presents the programme in the context of local administration and the structures in place for the provision and improvement of housing. It then turns to the application of the PLH to the communauté urbaine of Lille. It boks at the problems to be addressed within the Lille conurbation and the way the PLH responded to them. The article concludes with a reflection on why the PLH has not proceeded and what may be learnt from this apparent failure. |
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